Professor James Toouli MBBS, FRACS
Our team of research fellows and research assistants are directed by Professor Jim Toouli who is recognized world wide for his surgical expertise and extensive research activities. He is Professor of Surgery at Flinders University in Adelaide and Co-Director of Circle of Care Adelaide. Jim is a member of the original team who began performing bariatric surgery at Flinders in the 1980s. . He has been responsible for training surgeons in bariatric and abdominal surgery nationally and internationally. His research in digestive diseases as well as obesity has attracted funding support from NH & MRC, other Government and semi-government organizations as well as the biomedical industry. He has authored over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals, over 50 invited chapters and edited 6 surgical books. Currently he supervises a number of clinical and laboratory based research projects in collaboration with a number of scientists and supervises a number of PhD and other higher degree students.
Dr Anthony Brancatisano B Appl Sc, MB BS, Ph D
Tony is Director of Research and Education at the Sydney Circle of Care. He is a medical practitioner and assistant surgeon in laparoscopic surgery. He achieved his research qualifications from Sydney University in 1987 as a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Research Scholar and undertook his post doctorate studies abroad at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA. He has written and published many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Given his broad background in research and medicine he is committed to achieving best outcomes in improving and resolving many of the co morbid illnesses associated with obesity and patient's overall quality of life.
Dr Jennifer Keogh National Research Coordinator
Dr Keogh is the national research coordinator for the Australian Institute of Weight Control and is a dietitian by profession. She qualified in Ireland and has worked in hospital practice in the London and Australia. Her interest in research began when she undertook her MSc in 1996. She obtained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Adelaide in research related to obesity and blood vessel health. Prior to joining the Australian Institute of Weight Control she was a research scientist at CSIRO’s Food and Nutritional Sciences and is a contributor to the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet and to the CSIRO Healthy Heart program. She has more than 50 research publications.
Research
The Australian Institute of Weight Control is committed to continuing to develop a robust research base for its clinical practice and the individual clinics have previously published the outcomes that have been achieved for their patients. In a new initiative the group is undertaking a combined analysis of the outcomes their patients have achieved. It is expected that there will be data available for 1000 patients making this one of the largest studies of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in the world. The results of this study will be available late in 2010.
The groups had also submitted a number of grant proposals including to the National Health and Medical research Council to examine the effect of adjustable gastric banding in type 2 diabetes.
Original Articles
Anwar, Mohamed MS; Collins, Jane; Kow, Lilian PhD, FRACS; Toouli, James PhD, FRACS Long-term Efficacy of a Low-pressure Adjustable Gastric Band in the Treatment of Morbid Obesity. Annals of Surgery. 247(5):771-778, May 2008.
Brancatisano A, Wahlroos S, Matthews S, Brancatisano R. Gastric banding for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the morbidly obese. Surgery Obesity Related Diseases 2008, In Press.
Brancatisano A, Wahlroos S, Brancatisano R. Improvement in co morbid illness following placement of the Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band. Surgery Obesity Related Diseases. 2008, In Press.
Al-Jiffry BO, Shaffer EA, Saccone GT, Downey P, Kow L, Toouli J. Changes in gallbladder motility and gallstone formation following laparoscopic gastric banding for morbid obestity. Can J Gastroenterol. 2003 Mar;17(3):169-74.
Greenslade J, Kow L, Toouli J. Surgical management of obesity using a soft adjustable gastric band. ANZ J Surg. 2004 Apr, 74(94):195-9.
Madeleine L Phillips1, Mark C Lewis2, Veronica Chew3, Lilian Kow4, John P Slavotinek5, Lynne Daniels6, Robin Valentine7, Jim Toouli8 and Campbell H Thompson9 The Early Effects of Weight Loss Surgery on Regional Adiposity. Obesity Surgery. Volume 15, Number 10 / November, 2005
Mark C Lewis, Madeleine L Phillips, John P Slavotinek, Lilian Kow, Campbell H Thompson and Jim Toouli Change in Liver Size and Fat Content after Treatment with Optifast® Very Low Calorie Diet Obesity Surgery, Volume 16, Number 6 / June, 2006
Abstracts:
Brancatisano A, Moulos M, Theodorou T, Turton A, Young G, Christian J, and Brancatisano R Weight Control Surgery using the Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band (SAGB): the Sydney experience. Obesity Surgery, A215, volume 15, 986, 2005.
Brancatisano R, Moulos M, Theodorou T, Turton A, Young G, Christian J, and Brancatisano A Concurrent laparascopic gastric banding and hiatus hernia repair in morbidly obese patients. Obesity Surgery, A215, volume 15, 985, 2005.
Brancatisano R Moulos M, Theodorou T, Turton A, Young G, Christian J, and Brancatisano A Multi disciplinary follow up improves results following adjustable gastric band surgery for the morbidly obese. 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand. 2005.
Brancatisano R, Wahlroos, S, Brancatisano A. Laparoscopic Gastric Banding in the Morbidly Obese: Single Surgeon Experience of 520 patients. Obesity Surgery, A69, 1009, 2006.
Brancatisano A, Wahlroos, R Brancatisano. Improvements in Quality of Life in Morbidly Obese Patients Following Gastric Banding in a Multidisciplinary Institution. Obesity Surgery A93, 1014, 2006.
Brancatisano A, Wahlroos, R Brancatisano. Health Outcomes in Obese Patients after Weight Loss Surgery using the Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band. Obesity Surgery, A146, 1027, 2006.
Brancatisano A, Wahlroos S, Brancatisano R. Gastric Banding for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Morbidly Obese. Australian Diabetes Society Scientific Meeting, 23rd-25th August, A300, 124, 2006.
Phillips M, Lewis M, Wahlroos S, Slavotinek J, Valentine R, Thompson C, Toouli J. Effects of Optifast very low calorie diet on liver size and regional adiposity. Gastroenterology Suppl 2006; A-294
Brancatisano, A, Wahlroos S, Brancatisano R. Gastric banding for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the morbidly obese.Surgery Obesity Related Diseases. 3 (3), 290-291, 2007.
Brancatisano, A, Wahlroos S, Brancatisano R. Weight loss outcomes using the Swedish adjustable gastric band in the morbidly obese: Single surgeon experience in 774 patients. Surgery Obesity Related Diseases, 3 (3), 317, 2007.
Brancatisano, A, Wahlroos, S, Brancatisano R. Quality of life before and after gastric banding in a multidisciplinary institution. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 3 (3), 321, 2007.
Other publications:
UPDATE – Medical Observer Article – Laparoscopic Gastric Banding for Morbidly Obese by Dr Roy Brancatisano, 2006.
Brancatisano A and Brancatisano R. Weight Management in Review: Bariatric surgery for weight loss – Part 1, Issue 7, InoVa Pharmaceuticals, 2008.